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Salon Culture is on the Rise in Philly as Local Art Lovers Make a Case for Intimacynew
The kind of audience-performer bond that you find at a salon helps to build a real sense of community around the arts. But who in their right mind would let their rugs get worn and their walls get smeared all in the name of intimacy, creativity and communal vibes?
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-22-2009 |
Art
In Philly, Dean & Britta Set Music to Andy Warhol's Barely Moving Picturesnew
The pair has long been associated with dreamy, cranky, Velvet Underground-like pop, adore '60s cinema and sound-tracked recent film fare like Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale. They were born to make a live score for the Live Arts Festival's 13 Most Beautiful ... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-22-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Philly's Stewart Ebersole is Searching for the Meaning of Your Black Flag Tattoosnew
Ebersole hopes compile a book about the people across the country who wear the simplistic, clean Black Flag tattoo and to answer two questions: What do Black Flag, and the Black Flag tattoo, mean to people? He plans to call the book Barred for Life.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Andrew Thompson |
09-22-2009 |
Culture
Like Herding Cats: A Report from the Hardcourt Bicycle Polo World Championshipnew
Bike polo itself isn't new, but it's just within the last 10 years or so that a new style, dubbed "hardcourt," has emerged, played on a hard surface instead of grass and using minimal, homemade equipment.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Isaiah Thompson |
09-15-2009 |
Sports
Director R.J. Cutler Talks About 'The September Issue'new
Cutler talked with us about Vogue, creative director Grace Coddington and coming face to face with the devil herself, only to find she's not that scary after all.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Molly Eichel |
09-15-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Philly Anarchist Newspaper Keeps Delivering the News Nobody Else Sees Fit to Printnew
The Defenestrator is released quarterly, or as often as finances and personal schedules allow. It is one of the longest-running and few remaining anarchist publications in the U.S., and it began as a photocopied newsletter.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Matt Stroud |
09-15-2009 |
Media
Bobcat Goldthwait Talks About the Rebirth of His Careernew
Make no mistake -- Goldthwait is fully aware of his place in the culture. "If somebody told me Michael Winslow was making movies," he says of his Police Academy co-star, "I'd be kinda skeptical. I'd have a very arched eyebrow."
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
09-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
At Philly's Art Hotel, Residents Earn Their Keep With Their Work, Not Their Walletsnew
The Art Hotel's guests carry out their free, two-week artist residencies in a quite unusual way: Rather than live in a separate building, or at least in separate rooms than the founders, they set up camp in the very townhouse we're chatting in.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Holly Otterbein |
09-01-2009 |
Art
Dear PETA: What Do You Want from Michael Vick?new
In our society, dog-fighting is illegal. Rightfully so. Also in our society, once a person passes through the justice system and is deemed fit to re-enter, he has the right to earn a living at whatever profession suits his skill. Michael Vick's profession is football.
Philadelphia City Paper |
E. James Beale |
08-25-2009 |
Sports
Eight Philly Artists Tell Us How They Pay the Billsnew
The following profiles peek behind the curtain, revealing how artists' day jobs affect their work and vice versa. More specifically, they reveal how eight local artists make enough dough to get up in the morning and create paint, make music or simply entertain us.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Molly Eichel |
08-25-2009 |
Culture
Four Great Ways to Make Your Own Ginger Ale ... and One Terrible Onenew
If you're a ginger ale lover, you may be surprised to find out just how easy it is to make your own. If you're a hater, doing it yourself is the best way to end up with something you actually want to drink.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Trey Popp |
08-25-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Epic, Overstuffed 'Inglourious Basterds' is WWII Through a Tarantino Lensnew
Tarantino is more interested in tailoring the WWII movie to fit his preoccupations than the other way around. He even manages to satisfy his foot fetish by having an errant high heel play a pivotal role in the climactic sequence.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-25-2009 |
Reviews
Federal Secure Communities Program Changes the Reality for Philly's Undocumentednew
ICE says that Secure Communities targets those illegal immigrants guilty of committing serious crimes. But immigrant advocates say the program will thrust lower-level offenders and innocent people behind bars, and hinder police in their work with immigrant communities.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Daniel Schwartz |
08-25-2009 |
Immigration
Jazz Drum Prodigy Justin Faulkner is Ready for the Big Timenew
Justin Faulkner played his first gig professionally at 13, but by that time he'd already been playing the drums for more than a decade, ever since his mother brought an Ohio Arts "Rock the World" toy kit back to their West Philly home.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
08-11-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rewriting the Book of Lovenew
Synth-pop quartet Book of Love has reunited and is touring, including a trip down memory lane to discuss when members of the group originally formed in Philadelphia as no wave band Head Cheese.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
08-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
